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GARDAÍ WERE OUT in force yesterday – on the roads, and in the air.
Yesterday they took part in a Europe-wide crack down on speeding.
In the 24 hour period between 6am Thursday and 6am this morning, the gardaí checked 98,650 vehicles and detected 659 speeding.
@GardaTraffic couldn’t resist tweeting this pun about ‘flying’ with this beautiful photo of Dublin at dusk.
But when it came to the crackdown, gardaí caught some drivers driving at incredible speeds across the country.
They included:
The message from gardaí? Speed kills.
“Unfortunately despite the widespread publicity some drivers have failed to change their driving behaviour,” they said.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
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